A Sketch of the Northern Balochi Language containing a Grammar Vocabulary and Specimens of the Language

The Northern dialect is spoken among the Rind Baloches living in the neighbourhood of the Bolan Pass in Kaehi and on the -Upper Sindh and South Panjab frontiers. [...] But the differences in dialect between one tribe and another are very slight while between the Northern and Southern dialects the difference is so great that the one is almost unintelligible to the tribes speaking the other. [...] As the Persian character is the only one current in the countries where Balochi is spoken I have employed it in the Vocabulary giving a transliteration of all words in the Roman character. [...] In transitive verbs with an object and agent this form expresses the perfect throughout the agent being in the inflected or instrumental form while the object is uninflected ; e. g. marclumanaghan wartha the man ate bread where marduma is the inflected form of mardum. [...] Both ses to be formed by the addition of the present and past forms of the defe verb to be to the infinitive base and the past base respectively.